"To show one's saint in front of one's people means to pretend... to be pretending?"

Su Jinpa was quite interesting, but still felt that these two words were not good words.

However, with this happening, the atmosphere between the two became much more natural and less unfamiliar.

As they talked, the two gradually left the bustling and prosperous areas of the capital.

Especially after leaving the city, the devastated scene made Su Jinpa feel worried, and Li Chen stopped when he said something.

Without saying a word, the two of them took advantage of the heavy snow to rush to Tongzhou.

"It's only twenty or thirty miles from the capital to Tongzhou. If there is a large-scale disaster relief, you should be able to see some scenes not far ahead." Su Jinpa found a topic and said.

Li Chen nodded and said, "I hope these people still have some conscience."

Su Jinpa knows what Li Chen means.

If disasters are rampant today, the imperial court and the treasury are empty, and whether it is the people or officials, life is actually not easy.

But officials have natural advantages. If they want to be greedy, then the materials and food for disaster relief are the best things to do.

Su Jinpa can only pray that nothing will happen today.

The two of them rushed forward, and the number of disaster victims around them gradually increased.

In just a quarter of an hour, Li Chen and Su Jinpa saw a long queue outside a town in the distance.

There were about a thousand victims queuing at the scene, and at the end of the line were several porridge sheds.

Looking at the officers, soldiers and yamen runners who maintained order around them, Su Jinpa said: "The order is pretty good, it seems that they have also put their heart into it."

"Dropping off the horse, go ahead and take a look."

The two of them got off the horse and walked along the team toward the porridge shed.

Before she walked far, Li Chen heard an old woman in the front line say weakly: "Uncle, okay, okay, give me some more. My wife is so sick that she can't walk. She has a child in her belly. That's the only seed in our family. Give me some... half a spoonful."

I saw the yamen runner in charge of serving the porridge cursing: "It's a great favor for the old immortal thing. His Royal Highness the Ninth Prince is willing to give alms. He dares to think that it's too little. If you have more than half a spoon, he has more than half a spoon, and everyone has more than half a spoon. How can I be so bad?"

"Do you want it? Get the porridge away!"

The old woman hesitated and reluctantly left, and was still begging, but as soon as she spoke, the yamen runner picked up a large spoon of porridge and knocked on her forehead.

The old woman immediately fell down screaming and her head was bleeding.

The yamen runner cursed: "You are asking you to get out, but you don't know what's wrong with me!"

After saying that, the yamen runner scooped the big spoon still stained with the old woman's hair and blood into the pot, and cursed, "Next!"

The broken bowl in the old woman's hand was smashed, and the porridge like boiled water was spilled all over. She didn't even care about the wound on her forehead. She tried her best to pick up the broken bowl. Looking at the only layer of thin water left in it, she cried loudly: "God, why did you treat me like this! I just want to ask for some porridge for my daughter-in-law and my unborn grandson!"

The victims around were all numb, as if they had become accustomed to it.

The next victim squeezed him away and took the bowl to pick up the porridge.

But before the spoon could have time to pour half a bowl of porridge that could almost be used as a mirror into the bowl, Li Chen snatched it.

"You, who are you!?"

The yamen runner who had been stolen with a big spoon subconsciously became angry. However, seeing that Li Chen was notorious and dressed in good manner, it was obvious that he could not be a victim, and his tone became much weaker.

Li Chen ignored him and stirred the wooden barrel with a spoon, but saw that there were only some broken rice flowers floating up at the bottom. More than the rice flowers were some black mud and sand and stones.
Chapter completed!